my interpretation of the Eastermans based on unused dialogue !!! (^_^)/🐇
clarifications + extra doodles under the cut :-)
firstly i’d like to say i am not in any way shape or form trying to claim this as canon !! i am simply Mentally ill and spend a really absurd amount of time thinking about Dr. Easterman. I choose to see the unused dialogue as not canon, believing it was unused for a reason, so this is solely for fun. a headcanon if you will ! also, slightly Neurotic disclaimer haha but writing is not my strong suit!!! if anything needs clarification or to be expanded upon, please let me know! 🎉
these were manically written at 5am so i fear they might not clearly communicate everything i was trying to say .... here are some bluntly stated facts for your convenience \(^_^)/
- Tallulah has unrecognized BPD in the 20s DEAR GODDD HELL ON EARTH. this of course makes her a reactive emotionally dependent person.
- Samuel is implied to come from money. i haven't yet figured out what it is that he does, but it must require him to be away from home a lot.
- Samuel chases the challenge until he's tamed it, (married and had a kid with her) then she's boring again. He uses work as an excuse to never be home unless absolutely necessary. When he is home, the boys are granted 'harsher discipline' that they couldn't get while he was gone. basically, he'd beat them, and his work as a father would be done and he could screw off. He officially leaves and never comes back sometime when stanley is 16 and hendrick is 10.
- Stanley is implied to be some sort of neurodivergent. i haven't yet fleshed it out, but i imagine he's very spacey and distant. When he's not angry, that is. I imagine he's a lot like his mother when angry. escapism and dissociation are his best friends.
- Tallulah really, really really really wanted a daughter, if you couldn't tell. She is constantly emasculating hendrick and stanley because of this.
- I think Hendrick physically takes after his maternal grandmother the most :) though, the older he gets, the more he starts to look like his father. he doesn't know how to feel about that.
- Tallulah has frequent outbursts of rage and takes it out of the boys. Postage stamp sized patches of scalp by the hair and all that. After his birth, she becomes emotionally reliant on Hendrick, using him as a replacement for his father. emotional incest to a T (q_q) i think that this would tie a lot into Adult Hendricks need for control and stability. it things were out of control or unstable at home, that meant something was wrong with his mother, and then it became Hendricks responsibility to fix it.
(While writing this i thought, "Why not Stanley? What makes Hendrick so special?" and i think it all goes back to Samuel. After Stanley’s birth, Samuel was still somewhat there, even if trying to escape. He completely screws off after Hendrick is born. By this time, Stanley is too old for Tallulah to mold around her needs, so she has Hendrick. Also, taking their temperment into account, i think Hendrick was a lot more eager to please. A byproduct of his mothers abuse, of course, but in my mind Stanley did what he wanted regardless of her feelings towards it. I think they butt heads a lot. Not Hendrick, though. Her sweet baby angel boy Hendrick always listens :) of course she’ll shun him for days at a time if he doesn’t.)
- Tallulah was going to get a degree in psychology. She is very very painfully embarrassed of the fact that she’s the only one of her siblings to not finish college, and that manifests in resentment, as most things with her do.
OKAY I BELIEVE THATS IT. if you’ve read this far you are a beautiful trooper. THANK YOU for listening to me!!! i appreciate your dedication. (^_^) do you agree with my interpretation? is it actually the opposite of what you think? do you have something to add or point out? PLEASE LET ME KNOW !!!! ^.^ this post is not so much a statement as it is an open discussion !!! i hold so much love in my heart for Easterman and i'd like to talk about him with others.... again, thank you for reading, and if this does well expect more haha!!! some easterbunnies for your troubles ⬇️⬇️⬇️🐇
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